Traveling gives you the opportunity to observe, think, and learn new things. Whether it is a new culture, food, or piece of history, traveling allows you to experience life from a different perspective. It is truly a transformative experience. If you are looking for a little inspiration for your travels, check out these quotes below!
1) “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page” – Saint Augustine
2) “Wherever you go, go with all your heart” – Confucius
3) “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” – John Steinbeck
4) “For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” – Leonardo da Vinci
5) “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” – Matsuo Basho
6) “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” – T.S. Eliot
7) “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
8) “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
9) “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
10) “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Mary Ritter Beard
11) “In Italy, they add work and life on the food and wine.” Robin Leach
12) “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight-seeing.’” – Daniel J. Boorstin
13) “One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart
14) “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
15) “Traveling makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert